Cinematic Pins

…,” “experience,” “feel,” or “enjoy,” which lend themselves to the aspirational nature of Pinterest. Make sure your image stands on its own, in case users don’t read the description. If needed, use text overlays on your images, but remember, you can’t use overtly commercial language like “buy now” within images. Use vertical images because they tend…

… product earlier this year, and while Facebook auto-play videos seemed like a bad idea for users, video on Facebook was a boon for brand awareness. Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel pitched his own native video product recently, and even Pinterest is getting in on the action with Cinematic Pins. Video already makes up 78 percent of Internet data…

Pinterest ads are now more on point. The social network has started letting brands target audiences, and it has a new kind of Promoted Pin—one that's animated. The ad updates come more than a year after Pinterest first started selling Promoted Pins, and the changes are a big step for its ad technology.